Spin Doctors - Written by The Source on Friday, September 19, 2008 12:00 - 8 Comments

Spin Doctors: DJ Enuff

Location: Brooklyn, NY

Upcoming Projects: Helping his Heavy Hitters DJ collective team blow up.

Side Hustle: CEO of Heavy Hitters. Scheduling club dates. “It’s important for me to do at least 3 clubs a week.”

Party Starters: “Anything by Jay-Z pops off in the New York clubs or anything Weezy when I’m out of town.”

Words: Ryan Ford

From the first time that a young DJ Enuff saw Jam Master Jay rocking on Ralph McDaniel’s Video Music Box, he knew what it was he wanted to do with the rest of his life. “I already knew I didn’t want to be a rapper,” says Enuff as he wraps up another segment on New York’s Hot 97. “I wasn’t gonna be a dancer. There’s only one fat boy who can dance and that’s Rerun. So I fell in love with DJing.”

Early on nothing gave Enuff more pleasure than playing his little homemade mixtapes tapes on a boom box on the corner for his breakdancing and freestyling friends. Though he was born in Spanish Harlem and lived on the Lower East Side of Manhattan for awhile, Enuff came of age in Brooklyn. And it wasn’t long before a BK legend would give him a copy of a yet-to-be released LP.

“This was when Big was still on Uptown, there was no Bad Boy yet,” Enuff recalls fondly. “Back then I was doing my thing on KISS FM, filling in for DJ Red Alert. So I started playing his album on the radio.” This lead to what most DJs would’ve deemed a dream—Puff Daddy asked Enuff to come on tour with his young protégé. But Enuff was already making moves in the industry and he didn’t want to get stuck in the background for his entire career, which was the fate of many a tour DJ. So he told Puff that he’d think about it. “Puff was like ‘What? You’ll think about it?’” recalls Enuff with a laugh. “I was like ‘Yeah. I’ll think about it.””

Enuff eventual committed and a great working relationship between Big and Enuff was born. “One of my fondest memories is when I came to pick Biggie up in my mother’s 1989 Nissan Sentra,” he says barely able to control is laughter. “Now mind you I’m a 3X. Big is like a 5X. In a Sentra? Man…”

Sadly, Biggie passed prematurely, something Enuff sees as tragic yet still manages to find a silver lining in the dark cloud. “I probably would’ve just stayed on as his tour DJ,” he speculates. “Now I got my own company. I’ve produced… it’s bittersweet, you know?” We know.

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the truth
Sep 19, 2008 14:59

lol 2 fat hip hop dudes in a car

46
Sep 24, 2008 19:22

Man!..,try motivation unlike confusion

France Foreign Exchange
Sep 25, 2008 14:41

I want to share with you Puff that will work to help you become a better trader. Trying to learn them all will only confuse you and make you lose a silver lining. Get Uptown as early as possible and follow the trend to maximize a silver lining.

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Oct 8, 2008 7:04

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Hybrid
Dec 22, 2008 20:16

I’d like to start by saying that I think you guys are doing a great job. I can’t start that way though because I’m having a hard time believing that The Hip Hop Bible is sitting on it’s laurels letting this culture be destroyed by a bunch of know-nothing critics and adolescents who have no appreciation for talent, skill or craft; only marketing savvy. Yes, you too, oh hallowed scribes of Street Knowledge are falling into this trap of abandoning that which above all makes an MC great: LYRICS.
There was a time when every rapper’s dream (besides platinum plaques and groupies) was to be acknowledged as one of the chosen few whose verse was so eloquent, clever and symbolic of one’s originality that it became, dare I say it? A HIP HOP QUOTABLE. Wow, could you get a higher accolade of your ability as a lyricist than that? Posdnous didn’t seem to think so. “Man, everything I say should be a Hip Hop Quotable” he said on “Stakes is High.” The great late yet all too early Big Punisher even boasted he was “King of the Hip Hop Quotables.”
Now with Soulja Boy-D4L-Hurricane Chris-Dem Franchise Boyz ringtone rappers coming outta the woodwork, lyrics are becoming a relic of a bygone era back when rappers were, uhm what’s the word? Oh yeah…SMART.
Let me get to the point…YOU CAN FIX THIS. And if you love this culture as much as you proclaim to, then YOU SHOULD FIX THIS. Give appreciation to some of the Lyricists out there still struggling to make their voices heard, stop being lazy and giving the quotable to Jay-Z and Nas. Go out there and FIND that underground verse that everybody should be checkin’ for! How did y’all manage to not give ANYBODY a quotable for that song Slaughterhouse?!
We are dying because you are LETTING US DIE. This isn’t about the South being wack OR an East Coast comeback. This is about how The Source has an established tool for getting Hip Hop to focus on that which made us great and can do so again. Why is it when I google Hip Hop quotable I get search results for a Ludacris song? This is unacceptable. Y’all don’t even have Hip Hop Quotables on your own website? What…the Fuck?
You need an issue dedicated to the Hip Hop Quotable and what it means to all of us. You need to tell us about WHO got them and WHY. And you need to make MC’s realize that this is something they should strive to get and that the only way to do that is by being NICE with the wordplay, rhyme schemes, poetry and vocabulary. Why am I putting this to you? Because VIBE put Plies on the cover and called him the future of Hip Hop. Y’all should be shittin’ bricks trying to prevent such a thing from occuring. As for XXL, I don’t recall a SINGLE rapper bragging about how they got “Train of Thought.” Besides we should be past excuses now. Stop following the trends and start SETTING them again. BE the change that all of us want to see. Return to your former glory by taking the first step.

signed,
Hybrid

P.S. I don’t believe anyone should bitch and moan without offering a solution so I have a list of some of the ones I know should be in there. It is not complete but it should get you started. If I’m wrong on any of these, feel free to let me know. I’m working off of memory here. We’re all human on my side of the street and nobody’s perfect. One.
Andre 3000-Aquemini,International Players Anthem,Royal Flush (He got one from ATLiens but I don’t remember it)
AZ-Rather Unique,I Don’t Give A Fuck,Fanmail
Beanie Sigel-Whatcha Life Like (I know he’s got at least 2 more)
Big Boi-He’s got at least 2, one from ATLiens and one from Speakerboxxx
Big L-Da Graveyard,’98 Freestyle (honorable mention for Ebonics)
Big Punisher-Superlyrical,Dream Shatterer,Drop It Heavy,Bring ‘em Back
Bishop Lamont-My Opinion
Black Thought-Y’all Know Who!
Canibus-Beasts From The East
Cee-Lo-Decisions, Decisions (He has another one)
Chino XL-No Complex
Common-Retrospect For Life,The 6th Sense
Consequence-He got one but I forgot it ’cause the song wasn’t on his CD
dead prez-Hip Hop
E40-something from “My Ghetto Report Card”
Eightball-something from “Lost”
Eminem-Forgot About Dre,The Way I Am,Renagade
Foxy Brown-730
Fredro Starr-What If
Game-something from LAX
Ghostface Killah-Impossible,Cream 2001 (at least 2 more)
Guru-Flip The Script
Gza-Breaker, Breaker
Ice Cube-Ghetto Vet,Child Support
Inspektah Deck-Triumph,Grand Prix (Y’all listed the verse incorrectly under Rec Room)
Jadakiss-Blackout,Why
Jay-Z-Cashmere Thoughts,Money Ain’t A Thang,Mind Right remix,The Takeover, Izzo,Alone In This World remix,Go Crazy, I Know, Minority Report,Watch What You Say To Me (Sorry if I missed one but it seem like he get it every other month.)
Joe Budden-Family Reunion
Kanye West-Through The Wire,All Falls Down,Diamonds, Everything I Am
Keith Murray-The Most Beautifullest Thing In This World
Kool G. Rap-a verse from Murda Muzik, the song was with Mobb Deep
KRS-ONE-(something, I mean it IS KRS!)
Krumb Snatcha-Make ‘Em Pay
Kurupt-Trylogy
Lady Of Rage-Sho Shot
Lauryn Hill-How Many Mics
Lil’ Kim-This Is Who I Am
Lil’ Wayne-Dr. Carter
LL Cool J-4,3,2,1,Back Where I Belong
Ludacris-first song on Chicken-N-Beer, I Think
Lupe Fiasco-Real Recognize Real
Method Man-Shadowboxin’-NYC Everything
MJG-I forgot but it was only 8 bars (very lazy)
Mr. Voodoo-I forgot
Mos Def-Mathematics,The Rape Over
Nas-It Ain’t Hard To Tell,Verbal Intercourse,I Gave You Power,Stillmatic freestyle,What Goes Around,One Mic,Black Zombie,Carry On Tradition (he might have more, I don’t remember)
Notorious B.I.G.-Kick In The Door
Pharoahe Monch-He’s got at least 2
Phonte-The Yo-Yo,All For You
PMD-Rampage
Prodigy-Nighttime Vultures,Quiet Storm
Prince Po-Hate
Q-Tip-Get A Hold (and 1 more)
Rakim-Microphone Fiend,Hoodlum
Ras Kass-H20 Proof (maybe Remain Anonymous too)
Redman-How High,Do What You Feel,Hostility
Rza-something from Supreme Clientele
Skillz-The Wrap Up
Sticky Fingaz-Money Talks
Styles P-he’s got 2 but I don’t remember
Talib Kweli-The Proud
T.I.-Prayin’ For Help
2Pac-Letter To My Unborn
I know there’s more but this is over a hundred already and I don’t remember any others. I hope you take this seriously and I hope to see the complete list soon.

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Apr 14, 2009 2:36

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Apr 14, 2009 2:41

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